1920.] NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 269 



tor subequal in length to the disk of the pronotum, strongly com- 

 pressed, moderately deep, bent dorsad very close to the base, apex 

 of the two valves together broader and blunter than in tenella, 

 the dorsal margin serrulate distad, the ventral margin recurved 

 denticulate distad. 



Cephalic femora armed on the ventro-internal margin with four 

 spines distad. Caudal femora about four-sevenths as long as the 

 tegmen, general form as in tenella, ventro-external margin wdth 

 six to nine spines, ventro-internal margin with four to six spines: 

 caudal tibiae as in tenella. 



General color of the body and limbs antimony yellow to ochraceous- 

 buff, darkening on the ventral surface of the abdomen to tawny, 

 tegmina, exposed portion of the wings and to a certain extent the 

 dorsum of the pronotum, courge-green, the veins frequently, and to 

 a variable degree, hned with light hellebore-green, the "dead" 

 spots mummy brown and variable in size, occasionally but two being 

 present. Eyes buckthorn-brown. Tibiae courge-green, the ex- 

 tremities of the caudal femora weakly of the same color. In life 

 the body coloration was in all probal^ility green or greenish, that of 

 the, tibiae probably being a remnant of the natural color. 



Length of body, 19 mm.; length of pronotum, 4.5; greatest (cau- 

 dal) width of pronotal disk, 3.9; length of tegmen, 32; greatest 

 width of tegmen, 10.9; length of caudal femur, 18.5; length of ovi- 

 positor, 5. 



In addition to the type we have before us two paratypic females,, 

 which bear the same data as the type, except that one was taken in 

 the month of July instead of August. These specimens show no 

 noteworthy differences from the type. One of the specimens has. 

 lost the cephalic femora and the other has but a single one ; in this latter 

 the femur has but a single spine on the ventro-cephalic margin. 

 The ventro-external margin of the caudal femora has the spines 

 seven or eight in number, of the ventro-internal margin six to eight 

 in number. These figures make the known variation in the for- 

 mulae of these margins for the species, six to nine and four to eight 

 respectively. 



Phylloptera ovalifolia Burmeister. 



1838. Ph[ijUoptera] ovalifolia Burmeister, Handb. der Entom., II, Abth II, 

 pt. I. p. 693. [South America.] 



Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro. November. One male. 

 [U. S. N. M.] 



This species previously has been recorded from Rio de Janeiro, 

 Theresopolis and Santa Catharina, Brazil. 



